Academic presentations

See border aesthetics lectures for lecture series (with selected videos) at University of Tromsø.

2010


Gerd Bjørhovde, “From Discords to Dubliners: a comparison of George Egerton’s and James Joyce’s short story techniques”, The Island and the Arts, The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN), University of Tromsø, 02-03.12.2010.

Gerd Bjørhovde, “Women Writers in/and/of the Canadian North: From Margaret Atwood’s ‘linoleum caves’ to Aritha van Herk’s ‘northerns’”. The 11th Nordic Conference on English Studies, 09-13.06.2010

Gerd Bjørhovde, “Writing the North – connecting two Norths? Canada and the Nordic countries”, Challenging Colonialism and Homogenizing Modernity: Theory, Methodology and Literary Analysis, Symposium arranged by the the DINO network (Diversity in Nordic Literature) and the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 06-09.10.2010.

Gerd Bjørhovde, “Writing on/from the Margins/Border:From the Barents Region to North America", Boundaries In and Of Literature, Video seminar arranged by the Grensprojek/Boundaries Project, North-West University, Potchefstroom with the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 28.10.2010.

Henk van Houtum, “The Abducted and Gated Europe”, University of Tromsø, Norway, 29..09.10.



Holger Pötzsch, “Borders, Barriers, and Grievable Lives”, Global Media and the War on Terror-conference, University of Westminster, London, 13-14.09.2010.


Holger Pötzsch, “Visualizing Painful Pasts: The Representation of Bloody Sunday in two British documentary dramas”, The Island and the Arts, The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN), University of Tromsø, 02-03.12.2010.


Johan Schimanski, “How National Borders are Created and Negotiated in Interaction with Narrativity, Aesthetics, and Interpretation”, SALT lecture, Uppsala University, 24.03.2010.

Johan Schimanski, “Reading for Borders and Aesthetics", SALT external workshop, Uppsala University, 24.03.2010.

Johan Schimanski, “Grenser: identitet, estetikk, verdier”, Kulturforskningens teori, praksis og relevans, Oslo, 01-02.02.10.



Johan Schimanski, “Border Aesthetics and Postmodernist Negotiations in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape”, Boundaries Seminar, Northwest University Potchefstroom, 20-21.10.2011

Johan Schimanski, “Pronouncing it the porder: The ascription of aesthetic values to external and internal national borders in Frank A. Jenssen, Saltbingen”, Challenging Colonialism and Homogenizing Modernity: Theory, Methodology and Literary Analysis, Symposium arranged by the the DINO network (Diversity in Nordic Literature) and the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 6-9.10.2010.

Johan Schimanski, “Pronouncing it the porder: The ascription of aesthetic values to external and internal national borders in Frank A. Jenssen, Saltbingen”, Boundaries In and Of Literature, Video seminar arranged by the Grensprojek/Boundaries Project, North-West University, Potchefstroom with the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 28.10.2010.

Johan Schimanski, “Truth and beauty (or not) of borders”, guest lecture, Aalborg University, 14.10.2010.

Lene Johannessen, “The Other Shores of Whitman’s Pacific”, Navigating Cultural Spaces: Images of Coast and Sea, Symposium, University of Kiel, 1-3.10.2010.


Mari Ristolainen, “Russian Border Guards’ Self-Writing Online”, Challenging Colonialism and Homogenizing Modernity: Theory, Methodology and Literary Analysis, Symposium arranged by the the DINO network (Diversity in Nordic Literature) and the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 06-09.12.2010.

Mireille Rosello, “Liquid Loves and Hates: Mediterranean borders in Philipppe Faucon’s Dans la vie”, Border Aesthetics Project Workshop, Barents Institute, Kirkenes, Norway, 05-06.02.10.



Reinhold Görling, “Über ästhetische Qualität”, Interkultuelle Programme und ästhetische Qualität von Kulturprodukten: Die Zukunft der klassischen Kultureinrichtungen, Ruhr 2110 GmbH, Essen, 03.02.2010.




Ruben Moi, “‘Quoof, quaquaqua and chiraqui’: The Language of Paul Muldoon’s Poetry”, Queen’s University, Belfast.

 2010.

Ruben Moi, “Ocean’s Love to Ireland”, Navigating Cultural Spaces: Images of Coast and Sea, Symposium, University of Kiel, 01-03.10.2010.

Ruben Moi, “The Language of Muldoon’s Poetry”, The Island and the Arts, The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN), University of Tromsø, 02-03.12.2010.


Stephen Wolfe, “The Borders of the Sea: Spaces of Representation”, Boundaries In and Of Literature, Video seminar arranged by the Grensprojek/Boundaries Project, North-West University, Potchefstroom with the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 28.10.2010.



Stephen Wolfe, “Crossing Borders with Geographic Missionaries´into the Arctic: John Barrow’s Writings in the Quarterly Review, 1816-1820”, Nordic Association of English Studies Conference, Oulo, 09-12.06.2010.

Stephen Wolfe, “Sea Borders in Literature in English”, Navigating Cultural Spaces: Images of Coast and Sea, Symposium, University of Kiel, 01-03.01.2010.

Stephen Wolfe, “The Multidirectional Journeys of Hugo Hamilton: Border Crossing Narratives in Fact and Fiction”, The Island and the Arts, The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN), University of Tromsø, 02-03.21.2010.

Timothy Saunders, “EcoClassics”, UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Classics Panel on ‘Sustainability’, UK Classical Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, Wales, 07-10.04.2010.


Timothy Saunders, “Greek and Latin in Brian Friel’s Translations”, The Island and the Arts, The 7th Biennial International Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN), University of Tromsø, 02-03.12.2010.


Timothy Saunders, “Percy Shelley, Antiquity and the Edges of the Ocean”, Boundaries In and Of Literature, Video seminar arranged by the Grensprojek/Boundaries Project, North-West University, Potchefstroom with the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 28.10.2010.

Timothy Saunders, “Percy Shelley, Antiquity and the Edges of the Ocean”, Navigating Cultural Spaces: Images of Coast and Sea, Symposium, University of Kiel, 01-03.10.2010.

2011


Chiara Brambilla, “Migration and Religions. A Local Experience of Dialogue between Christians and Muslims: the case-study of Bergamo”, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Bologna, 07.06.2011.



Anne Heith “Performing Incommensurability: Minority - Ethnicity – Culture”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Anne Heith, “Aesthetics and Ethnicity: The Role of Boundary-Marking in Sámi and Tornedalian Finnish Cultural Production”, Challenging Colonialism and Homogenizing Modernity: Theory, Methodology and Literary Analysis, Symposium arranged by the the DINO network (Diversity in Nordic Literature) and the Border Poetics/Border Culture Group, University of Tromsø, 06-09.10.2010.

Anne Heith, “Can the Marginal Speak? Elision, Racialisation and Ethnification in Valkeapää’s Beaivi áhčážan”, conference “Otherness, Subjectivity and Representation”, Åbo Akademi, 21-22.10.2011

Anne Heith, “Diaspora Aesthetics: Blackness, Fluidity, Representation”, Border Aesthetics conference, University of Tromsø, 05-07.09.2012

Anne Heith, “Vilka är “vi”? Performativitet och gränsdragningar i tornedalsk litteraturhistoria och grammatik”, Docentföreläsning, Umeå universitet, 21.09.2011



Chiara Brambilla, “How Euro-African borderscapes have been dis-locating and re-locating from ‘outside’ European politicized space to its ‘inside’ cityscapes: the case of Zingonia”, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Bologna, 19.04.11.



Chiara Brambilla, “For a Genealogy of the Euro-African Borderland: B/ordering and Othering between the Herero Memory and Identity in the Borderscapes of Post-colonial Namibia”, Seminario Interdisciplinare, Interfacoltà, Interuniversitario (SIII 2011) – Beni Comuni [Interdisciplinary, Interfaculty, Interuniversity Seminar (SIII 2011) – Common Goods], Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Milan, 12.04.2011.

Chiara Brambilla, “In-visible Mediterranean Euro-African Borderscapes: Participatory Video and the Intersection of Visuality, Space and Power in the EU(rope) Migration ‘Politics of Aesthetics”, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Arts, Fine Arts and Multi-media, University of Bergamo, 02.05.2011.



Chiara Brambilla, “In-Visible Mediterranean Euro-African Borderscapes: Participatory Video and the Intersection of Visuality, Space and Power in the EU(rope) Migration ‘Politics of Aesthetics”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Chiara Brambilla, “Mobile Euro-African Borderscapes: Dis-locations, Re-locations, and New Urban Thresholds between the Visible and the Invisible”, conference “The Mobile Borders”, Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) XI, Geneva/Grenoble, 06-09.09.11.

Chiara Brambilla, “Shifting Italy/Libya Borderscapes: Negotiations, Claims and Counterclaims at the Interface of EU/Africa Borderland”, ABORNE Workshop - Fences, Networks, People: Exploring the Africa/EU Borderland, University of Pavia, 15-17.12.2011




Chiara Brambilla, “Moving Euro-African Borderscapes: New Urban Thresholds between the Visible and the Invisible”, Remaking Borders, EastBordNet conference, University of Catania, 20-22.01.2011.


Chiara Brambilla, “Towards an Aesthetics of Borders: the Case of Berlin between Borderscapes and Cityscapes”, Department of Human Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Bergamo, 22.03.2011.



Gerd Bjørhovde, “Mapping borderlandscapes: some thoughts on the use of geographical tropes in Canadian literature, with reference to Emily Carr and Ethel Wilson”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Holger Pötzsch, “Marginal or Liminal? The Norwegian County of Finnmark in Knut Erik Jensen’s Stella Polaris and Burnt by Frost’”, international symposium “Beyond Boundaries: Exploring the Concepts of Liminality and Alterity”, Tromsø University, 09-11.11.2011.


Holger Pötzsch, “Between Constitutive Absence and Subversive Presence: The Other in the War and Action Film”, ‘Mock-viva’ (test defence of dissertation) arranged by CEPIN-research school, University of Tromsø. Opponent Prof. Anna Reading, Centre for Media and Cultural Research London South Bank Univ. and Univ. of Western Sydney. 07.06.2011

Holger Pötzsch, “On the technical and narrative means through which generic war and action movies set up and maintain epistemological barriers”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.



Johan Schimanski, “Pronouncing it the Porder: The Ascription of Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen, The Salt Bin”, Boundaries Seminar, Northwest University Potchefstroom, 20-21.10.2011



Johan Schimanski, “Victor Turner and the Border Fantastic”, international symposium “Beyond Boundaries: Exploring the Concepts of Liminality and Alterity”, Tromsø University, 09-11.11.2011

Johan Schimanski, “Border Aesthetics and Postmodernist Negotiations in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape”, Remaking Borders, EastBordNet conference, University of Catania, 20-22.01.2011.

Johan Schimanski, “Reading for Borders”, guest lecture, Northwest University Potchefstroom, 18.10.2011



Johan Schimanski, “The Disorientating Epistemology of the Border”, guest lecture, Northwest University Potchefstroom, 19.10.2011


Johan Schimanski, “Border aesthetics and postmodernist negotiations in the Norwegian-Russian borderscape”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.


Johan Schimanski, “Border Reading Double Vector: The Epistemology of Border-Crossings”, Scapes research seminar, Radboud University Nijmegen, 13.05.2011.


Johan Schimanski & Ulrike Spring, “Setting the Borders of the Arctic in the Discourse of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition 1872-1874”, Narrating the High North conference, Svalbard Museum, 06-09.09.2011.

Lene Johannessen, “Shangri-La Recall: Remembering Chávez Ravine”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Lene M Johannessen, “The American-ness of Drude Krog Janson’s A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter”, guest lecture within the Border Aesthetics research project University of Tromsø, 05.10.2011



Lene M Johannessen, “The Limits of Transculturation in John Sayles’ Lone Star”, Words and Worlds: Transculturalism, Translation, Identity,” Second Symposium, Nordic Network for Literary Transculturation Studies, Helsinki 26-28.08.2011


Mari Ristolainen, “Russian border guard’s poetry”, Border Aesthetics guest lecture, University of Tromsø, 16.04.2011.


Mireille Rosello, “Crossing Linguistic and National Borders: New European Mobility”, Border Aesthetics guest lecture, University of Tromsø, 06.04.2011.


Mireille Rosello, Hospitable Spaces and Space of Hospitality: Roma communities and Travelers in contemporary Europe, London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series, Senate House, London, March 2011.




Mireille Rosello. What’s Queer about a Feather Duster and what’s not Queer about a Transidentified Algerian Immigrant?” (with Dea van Lierop, Thijs Witty, Anouk Zuurmund), Conference: Import – Export – Transport. Queer Theory, Queer Critique and Queer Activism in Motion, University of Vienna, 28-30.04.2011.



Mireille Rosello, ‘Borders and rudimentariness: Academic and Migrant Languages”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Mireille Rosello, “The Vulnerable Participant Observer and Native Informant: Gadjo Dilo and the Representation of Roma-French cultures”, Border Aesthetics guest lecture, University of Tromsø, 6.04.11.

Mireille Rosello, “The Vulnerable Participant Observer and Native Informant: Gadjo Dilo and the Representation of Roma-French cultures”, conference “Diaspora / Cultures of Displacement?” Montpellier 3 University
, 20-23.06.2011.

Mireille Rosello, “The Academic Tourist as Queer Ethnographer: Fouad Laroui’s Travel Writing”, Yale University, French Studies, May 2011.



Reinhold Görling, ‘Beyond a phenomenological concept of border : On the relation between media theory and border aesthetics”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Ruben Moi, “‘Second Time Around’: Poetry and History in Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know”, conference “A New Ireland?”, Dalarna University, 03-04.11.2011


Ruben Moi, “Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the Barents Region in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson (1907-1994) and Bjarne Holst (1944-1993)”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05. 2011.


Stephen Wolfe, “Here, There and everywhere: Border Theory and Aesthetic Work”, Plenary speech at “Words and Worlds: Transculturalism, Translation, Identity”, a NORDFORSK Symposium Arranged by the Nordic Network of Literary Transculturation Studies Hotel Arthur, Helsinki 26-28.08.2011.

Stephen Wolfe, “Border Aesthetics: Working with Cultural Studies Texts”, keynote at working seminar “Theories on Borders” organized by research project “Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders” in co-operation with VERA, Mekrijärvi Research Station (in Ilomantsi), University of Eastern Finland, 22.–23.08.2011.

Stephen Wolfe, “Atlantic Ancestors 'drowned at sea': Awakening the Dead”, international symposium “Beyond Boundaries: Exploring the Concepts of Liminality and Alterity”, Tromsø University, 09-11.11.2011

Tim Saunders, “Border Aesthetics in Alexandria in the third century BC”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05.2011.

Timothy Saunders, “Aesthetics Across Borders: Modern Receptions of Hellenistic Culture,” Transculturation Seminar Series, University of Bergen, 30.11.2011

Urban Wråkberg, “Agents of Northern Development: Transnational Enterprise, State Institutions and Circum-Arctic Collaboration”, guest lecture, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Politics and EU, University of Tampere, 04.11.2011


Urban Wråkberg, “Assessing the Barents Region: Contemporary Contests and Alliances in Cross-Border Communities”, Border Aesthetics guest lecture, University of Tromsø, 23.02.2011.


Urban Wråkberg, “Geopolitical Production in North European Cross-border Discourses”, Border Aesthetics seminar, University of Tromsø, 25.02.2011.

Urban Wråkberg, “Border and Zonal Aesthetics in Cross-Border Interaction between Northern Europe and Russia”, Second Workshop Border Aesthetics, Rome, 26-28.05. 2011.

2012

Anne Heith, “A Sámi Palimpsest: Indigenous Counter-History versus Documentation in the Age of Photography”, conference “Ambiguities, Alterations, Alternatives – transforming Nordic literatures”, Uppsala universitet, 04-06.10.2012

Anne Heith, “Tensions of Globalization: Crisis, Emancipation, AlterNative”, workshop “Crises and Identities in the Nordic Countries”, Islands universitet, Reykjavík, 02-03.02.2012

Chiara Brambilla and Holger Pötzsch, “InVisible/InVisual Subjects: Notes Towards the Politics and Aesthetics of (Medial) Borderscapes”, Border Aesthetics conference, University of Tromsø, 05-07.09.2012

Chiara Brambilla, “(In)visible Mediterranean Euro-African Borderscapes: Participatory Video and New Forms of Political Belonging at the Blurring Border between Politics and Aesthetics”, Borderscapes III Conference, University of Trieste, 28-30.06.2012

Chiara Brambilla, “Dis-locations and re-locations of borders between Europe and Africa across the Mediterranean”, Summer School “Mediterranean, identity and otherness of Europe”, Matera, 14.09.2012

Chiara Brambilla, “Shifting Euro/African Borderscapes: Experiences, Policies and Representations at the Interface of Euro/African Border Nexus”, guest lecture within the Border Aesthetics research project University of Tromsø, 29.05.2012



Gerd Bjørhovde, “Olive Schreiner and George Egerton: Literary Border-Crossers in an Expanding World”, seminar “Women Writers in History. Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture” (COST action ISO901), University of Oslo, 27.08.2012.

Henk van Houtum & Stephen Wolfe, “The Waiting State: Kafka and Coetzee’s Imaginary Geographies of the B/ordering of the State”, Border Aesthetics Conference, University of Tromsø, 05-07.09.2012

Henk van Houtum, “The Future of Border Studies”, keynote lecture BRIT XII, Fukuoka/Busan, 13-16.11.2012

Holger Pötzsch, “Between Constitutive Absence and Subversive Presence: Self and Other in Contemporary War Film”, dissertation defence, 19.04.2012



Holger Pötzsch, “Disorienting Liminality in Anonyma: ‘Eine Frau in Berlin’”, Disorientation seminar, University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, 15.06.2012


Holger Pötzsch, “The War Film Genre, and the Differences and Similarities between American and European War Movies”, dissertation lecture, 19.04.2012




Johan Schimanski, “Disorientating Borders”, ASCA Miniconference: Extremely Close and Incredibly Slow, University of Amsterdam, 17.06.2011.


Johan Schimanski, “Disorientation, Unorientation, Post-Orientation”, Disorientation Seminar, University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, 15.06.2012

Johan Schimanski, “Grensebegreper og begrepsgrenser”, KULVER-konferanse “Kulturforskning og tverrfaglighet: Begreper på vandring”, Oslo, 07-08.02.2012



Johan Schimanski, “Liminality and Borders in Literary Aesthetics”, The 6th International Seminar on Liminality and Texts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 16-18.04.2012

Lene M Johannessen, “Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealers and ‘Americanity’ on the Border”, Border Aesthetics conference, University of Tromsø, 05-07.09.2012



Mireille Rosello and Timothy Saunders, “Ecologies of Borders / Borders of Ecologies”, Border Aesthetics Conference, University of Tromsø, 05-07.08.2012


Nadir Kinossian, “Resurrection of the Kul-Sharif Mosque in the Kazan Kremlin”, Workshop “Under Construction. The Role of Religion in Eastern Europe Today”, St. Petersburg State University Law Faculty, 20-21.09.12.



Nadir Kinossian, “Authoritarian Modernisation” and regional development in the Russian Federation”, the Aleksanteri Institute Public Lectures Series, University of Helsinki, 27.03.2012.



Nadir Kinossian, “Places, geographical scales and borders”, International Conference “Border Aesthetics”, University of Tromsø, 05.–07.09.2012.



Reinhold Görling and Johan Schimanski, “Reading Kafka’s ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’ as a Text about Sovereignty, Aesthetics and Borders”, Border Aesthetics Conference, University of Tromsø. 05-07.09.2012

Reinhold Görling, “Alltag und Migration: Sinne, Dinge, mentale Räume”, conference “TürkeiAlmanya: Migration und Interkulturalität im regionalen Kontext”, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 23.11.2012

Reinhold Görling, “Borders of the Human: On Vulnerability and Violence”, University Tromsø, 08.02.2010.


Reinhold Görling, “Crossing the Border: the Event, the Sovereign, the Subject, and the Social”, guest lecture within the Border Aesthetics research project, University of Tromsø, 29.05.2012

Reinhold Görling, “Playing with Reality”, Die Popularität der Literatur, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 09.01.2010.


Reinhold Görling, “The Intrigue of Terrorism”, Inaugural conference „Terrorisms” by Union des Theatres de l’Europe (UTE) in the National Theatre Oslo, 15.09.2013

Ruben Moi, “Borders and Boundaries in Northern Ireland and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney”, Border Aesthetics Conference, University of Tromsø, 05-07.08.2012



Stephen Wolfe, “Liminality through Drowning: The Aesthetics of Death and Memory in Slave Narratives”, The 6th International Seminar on Liminality and Texts, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 16-18.04.2012



Stephen Wolfe, “Disorientation and Writing: Marking the Borders of Fidgeting and Keeping Still”, Disorientation Seminar, University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, 15.06.2012



Stephen Wolfe, “Memoryscapes into Borderscapes: Notes on Progress towards a Border Aesthetics”, keynote lecture at Fifth Autumn Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory, “In, out and in between: Dynamics of Cultural Borders”, Tallinn, 17-19.10.2012


Timothy Saunders, “Metaphor and Disorientation,” Disorientation Seminar, University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. 15.06.2012


Timothy Saunders, “Metaphor and Translation”, Metaphor and Symbol Conference, Runde. 10.05.2012

Urban Wråkberg, “Crossing Northern Borders of the Western Knowledge System”, conference “Border Aesthetics”, University of Tromsø, 05-07.09.2012

Urban Wråkberg, “Dilemmas of Forecasting Northern Developments: Globalisation, Regionalism and Transnational Enterprise”, international seminar, “Fields of Exploration - Limits of Exploitation”, arranged by Master studio AHO: Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Kirkenes, 09.03.12


Urban Wråkberg, “Enactments of Drama and Exploration in Northern Eco-Tourism and Cross-Border Travels”, Nordic Art Student’s Workshop, arranged by University of Tromsø & Umeå University, Kirkenes, 31.03.2011

2013

Anne Heith, “Legitimering, alternativ, funktion. Historier om litteratur i Sverige, Sápmi och Meänmaa”, conference “Nordisk litteraturhistorie i undervisning av Skandinavistikk i utlandet”, ELTE University, Budapest, 25-26.04.2013

Chiara Brambilla, “Euro/African Borderscapes”, ABORNE Roundtable - Borders and Knowledge Production: A Comparative Perspective, EastBordNet conference “Relocating Borders”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 11-13.01.2013.

Chiara Brambilla, “Exploring the Critical Potential of the Borderscapes Concept: the Case of Euro/African Borderscapes”, European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 3-5.07.2013.

Chiara Brambilla, “Introductory Overview from WP 11 - Fieldwork Training and Methodological Developments”, EUBORDERSCAPES Workshop III, Bergamo 02-03.07.2013.

Gerd Bjørhovde, “Three women - three voices - one vision? Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West and Stevie Smith: Border-crossing writing in a Europe on the brink of war”, conference, “Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary”, University of Zürich, 28.11-01.12.2013

Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno Lacy, “Lies, Lies and Maps. The Cartographic Cleansing of Europe”, European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 03-05.07.2013.

Henk van Houtum, “Toward a new c/Artography of borderscapes”, keynote European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 03-05.07.2013.

Holger Pötzsch, “Commemorative Gender Justice: Rearticulating the Experience of War in Anonyma: ‘Eine Frau in Berlin’“, Conference “Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice”, Universitetet i Tromsø, 19-22.06.2013

Holger Pötzsch, “Rearticulating the Experience of War in Anonyma: ‘Eine Frau in Berlin’“, Conference “Memories of Conflicts/Conflicts of Memories”, University of London, 12-13.02.2013

Holger Pötzsch, “Seeing and Thinking Borders”, European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 03-05.07.2013

Johan Schimanski and Ulrike Spring “Borders of the Arctic in Exploration Narratives: The Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition 1872-1874”, workshop “Northern Nations, Northern Natures”, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, 09-11.11.2013

Johan Schimanski, “Ellisif Wessel som grensefigur. Litterære og biografiske resepsjoner”, Festseminar for Irene Iversen, University of Oslo, 25.01.2013

Johan Schimanski, “Reading Changing Border Concepts in Published Immigrant Narratives: Roda Ahmed and Amal Aden”, European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 03-05.07.2013

Johan Schimanski, “Reading Changing Border Concepts in Published Immigrant Narratives: Nasim Karim and Romeo Gill”, conference “Border Code”, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, 06-08.11.2013

Johan Schimanski, “Representation-Fiction at Borders: Introduction to Discussion”, Conference and art exhibition “AntiAtlas des Frontières / AntiAtlas of Borders”, Aix-en-Provence, 30.09-02.10.2013

Johan Schimanski, “The Bordering of the Sensible: Border Politics and Border Poetics”, EastBordNet conference “Relocating Borders”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 11-13.01.2013

Mari Ristolainen, “Displaced Borders: Written Borderline between Pskov Province and Chechnya”, conference “Border Code”, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, 06-08.11.2013

Mari Ristolainen, “Virtual Frontiers: Russian Border Guard Poems Online”, Annual Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies, Denver, CO, 10-13.4.2013

Mari Ristolainen, “Virtual Frontiers: Russian Border Guard Poems Online”, VERA Day “Perspectives on Culture, History and Traditions at Borders: Possibilities for cultural co-operation and exchange at the Finnish, Norwegian and Russian borders”, Joensuu, 22.5.2013

Mireille Rosello, “Contingent Train to Hybridity: Pascal Mercier’s Transnational Stories”, Distinguished Lecture Series on “Hybridity and/as Contingency”, University of Bern, October 21-22.10.2013

Nadir Kinossian, “Redefining borders: architectural project as a microcosm of identities and conflicts”, EastBordNet conference “Relocating Borders”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 11-13.01.2013

Nadir Kinossian, “Urban agglomerations in Siberia: tackling peripherality by aggravating spatial disparities?”, Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London, 28-30.08.2013

Stephen Wolfe and Johan Schimanski, “Doing Border Aesthetics: Three Examples”, EUBORDERSCAPES Workshop III, Bergamo 02-03.07.2013.

Stephen Wolfe, “‘Edge Writing’: Imaginary Geographies of Waiting at the Border”, seminar “Borders and Bordering”, Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London, 30.09-01.10.2013

Stephen Wolfe, “Imagining Migrant Worlds and Material Cultures: Border Crossing Figures and Tropes”, conference “Border Code”, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, 06-08.11.2013

Stephen Wolfe, “Imagining Migrant Worlds in Material Cultures: Border Crossing Figures and Tropes”, European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders”, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 03-05.07.2013

Stephen Wolfe, “New Concepts in the Border Imaginary: Borderscapes, Bordering and Ordering and Border Narratives”, FIL-3006, Universitetet i Tromsø, 26.02.2013

Stephen Wolfe, “Waking the Dead--Bordercrossings, Memoryscapes and Righting/Re-writing History”. TRAMS Seminar Series “Crossing Borders”, PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen, 16-17.05.2013

Timothy Saunders, “Kierkegaard and Wales: Literature and History in R. S. Thomas’s poems ‘Reservoirs’ and ‘A Grave Unvisited’”, Literature and History: Nordic Angles conference, Volda (Norway), 30-31.05.2013

Timothy Saunders, “Saying ‘That’s Wales’ in English: R. S. Thomas’s poem ‘Abercuawg’“. 12th Nordic Conference of English Studies, Uppsala (Sweden), 10-13.10.2013